Fans had to wait a month to watch Pakistan Super League games in person after the Twenty20 cricket tournament was impacted by the Iran war.

They had to wait a few extra hours Tuesday because of a ticketing problem.

A day after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif approved the return of fans to stadiums for the remaining four games of the nation's premier cricket event, ticket distribution hit a snag.

“Printing of tickets was done in Lahore and it was supposed to come to Karachi through cargo at 1 p.m., but the flight got canceled,” league CEO Salman Naseer told reporters.

So, hundreds of fans waited in line for several hours ahead of the first playoff match — between Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi in the southern port city of Karachi — until tickets arrived.

“We received lots of complaints, but the problem was that we got very short time," Naseer said.…